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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1228-1 (elinks)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to elinks announced via advisory DSA 1228-1. Teemu Salmela discovered that the elinks character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.4-7.1. For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.11.1-1.2. We recommend that you upgrade your elinks package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201228-1

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